Sentences with phrase «about legacy publishing»

(As with most everything I have to say about legacy publishing, there are exceptions.

Not exact matches

I have just recently writing a long essay about the consequences of Thatcherism for a journal issue on the 30th anniversary of 1979 which the ippr are to publish next month, at which point you will be welcome to debate and indeed take issue with my own views on her economic and political legacy.

Eight years into the tumultuous revolution, with about three years left on his watch, Bloomberg today took a bold step toward shoring up his education legacy by replacing schools chancellor Joel Klein with publishing executive Cathie Black.

An international study published in July showed that air pollution is shortening the lives of people in northern China by about 5.5 years compared to the south, a legacy of a policy that provided free coal for heating in the north.

Very little is known about the game, other than it's a JRPG published by FuRyu, which seems to be some sort of (spiritual) sequel to The Legend of Legacy.

One agent, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said he certainly wouldn't call Konrath's deal a game changer, but that it does say something interesting about the place of the midlist author in legacy publishing: «It's not necessarily clear that big corporate publishing is well structured to help low midlist authors with rapidly reducing print runs in an environment in which overall print sales are falling week by week.

Insightful and open discussion about the pros and cons of legacy publishing versus indie / self / Amazon publishing.

Many writers I knew were still confidently repeating legacy publishers» talking points about how self - published books are of low quality, nobody makes any money at it, you would ruin your chances of ever landing a «real publisher,» etc..

You may note that I haven't used the words «legacy publishing» to talk about traditional publishers.

Hachette is confirming and even exceeding our worst imaginings about exactly where the legacy publishing industry is at today.

Also, as I come to learn more about the industry and the historical friction between Amazon and legacy publishing, the more aware I am of some of the mismatched arguments going on.

They will give you a good idea about the split in thought about the future not only of HMH, but of legacy publishing in general.

Tim wrapped up a digital publishing legacy by saying, «TOC was a great ride, and we'll miss many things about that annual gathering of the future - positive publishing community.

At Grub Street in Boston, speaking at a session about Amazon and publishing Eisler said, «The Big 6 Legacy publishers are a cartel — OK, let's call them a club — that pays royalties in lockstep, and reports them in byzantine statements.»

My «DNF» rate is about the same for legacy books and self - published.

What does the Concise Bibliography of Ida's work at the end of Muse reveal about her legacy and Paul's contribution to it, even beyond his publishing of Mnemosyne?

After reading H.M. Ward's post about turning down deals, and reading your two posts on author earnings, it's pretty easy to see that authors have been screwed for years by legacy publishing.

I've been very active and vocal in informing authors about how self - pubbing has advantages over legacy publishing, and how legacy publishing tends to screw the majority of authors.

Amazon was not about to face off with NYC where legacy publishing had over a century of dominance.

On the other hand, PG wonders if anyone in Big Publishing understands a single thing about disruptive technological innovations and their impact on legacy products and legacy producers.

As of late, we've seen a lot of hoo - ha and fol - de-rol about «legacy» publishing and self - publishing.

The rift between legacy publishing and self - publishing is downright genteel compared to, say, software developers arguing over, well just about anything.

Around this same time NRP came into existence and Sarah was already reading the writing on the wall about a lot of legacy publishing.

Publishing Perspectives spoke with Krüger about the state of publishing, his legacy, and Publishing Perspectives spoke with Krüger about the state of publishing, his legacy, and publishing, his legacy, and his plans:

After all, why would give up 70 % of the takings for less than 25 % of the takings - I'll refer you to Amy Shojai's blog post about legacy Ebook publishing for the numbers: http://amyshojai.com/2011/05/17/tuesday-tips-kindle-ization-2-brass-ring-or-lead-balloon/ Now if someone comes along, and can help me increase my sales by x % at y % cost, so that I increase my profits by z % as Joe put it, I'd be crazy not do go with them.

Statements like Nick's tells me he's only looking at digital books and sales as they apply to legacy publishers and not the whole industry of digital publishing, which started about 15 years ago.

While many legacy publishers may not like to think about how large the self - publishing movement is (Smashwords alone, has announced that writers have self - published more than 250,000 books on its platform), it appears that making money off self - publishing authors is just fine by the traditional houses.

That's one of the great advantages of e-pub... if I got a better idea back when I was working in legacy publishing, there was nothing I could do about.

Legacy publishers have become sort of like a cult — cutting writers off from the self - publishing world, telling stories about how horrible it is «out there,» and claiming they control the only route to legitimate success.

When people talk about «legacy publishing» they SHOULD be thinking about the digital rights (books without a shelf - life) that will continue to produce royalties for the rest of the author's life and even their heirs (for those wise enough to retain those rights).

In a video podcast with author - coach Joanna Penn (Penn advises and teaches other authors), Sharp talks about a genre - agnostic quality to self - publishing that means a lot to writers who, like her, have been told in legacy publishing that variety is not the spice of success.

It is easily proven that the same problems folks bitch and moan about regarding self - publishing are present in legacy published books.

Many writers still fantasize about being picked up by one of the Big Five, but should they, when authors are leaving legacy publishers for self - publishing only to then leave self - publishing behind when approached by an Amazon imprint?

«I'm delighted to have this opportunity to build on the legacy of the Curatorial Practice program at CCA while thinking even more expansively about its connection to architecture, design, publishing, and public space.

THE LIBRARY Legacy Infrastructure Repository Portal Enterprise 8 GLOBAL WARMING Impact of Human Activity or Natural Climate Variation / About Future of Scholarly Monograph Role of Subventions and Subsidies for Publication Market Impact on Research Topics / income through strategies like publishing program, software development, network services and duplication services.